Manager, Audiobook Catalog Strategy

Spotify; New York (NY); Remote; USD 120,000 - 172,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading audio streaming company is seeking a professional to manage their audiobook catalog, balancing listener satisfaction and economic value. The ideal candidate will have at least 2 years of experience in related industries and strong data analysis skills. This role offers flexibility within the US and a competitive salary along with benefits such as health insurance and paid leave.

Benefits

Health insurance

Six-month paid parental leave

401(k) retirement plan

Monthly meal allowance

23 paid days off

13 paid flexible holidays

Paid sick leave

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in music, podcast, video, book, or gaming industries.
• Experience in translating insights into business recommendations.
• Ability to work with large datasets.

Responsibilities

• Centralize strategies for catalog value management.
• Define business goals and success criteria.
• Lead catalog enhancement initiatives.

Skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Data analysis

Strategic thinking

AI tools experience

SQL

Python

Education

Four-year college degree

Tools

Tableau

BigQuery

Job description

This role is responsible for shaping a premium audiobook catalog that delivers both listener satisfaction and scalable economic value. The ideal candidate combines industry expertise with strong business judgment, analytical rigor, and cross-functional leadership.

You will use data, insights, and market knowledge to ensure our catalog offers the right titles at the right value, balancing cultural relevance with audience growth and overall sustainability. Comfort with AI prompting and tool sets is highly valuable.

What You'll Do

• Centralize strategies and develop frameworks for value management and catalog composition analysis.
• Define business goals, success criteria, and hypotheses for testing, including geo-targeting rules for launches and cohort optimization strategies.
• Align on economic guardrails for new markets and initiatives, monitoring and proactively identifying issues and resolutions.
• Identify and lead catalog enhancement initiatives that drive business goals and target distinct audiences or catalog subsets.
• Develop catalog recommendations to support company “Bets” and other strategic initiatives.
• Use AI tools and prompting techniques to accelerate analysis, automate catalog management tasks, and surface insights from large datasets.
• Experiment with AI-driven frameworks (e.g., recommendation tuning, content tagging, catalog simulations) to complement human judgment and improve decision-making.

Who You Are

• A strong cross-functional collaborator, able to balance diverse stakeholder needs (Editorial, Licensing, Product, Finance, Growth).
• A strategic thinker who can balance short-term optimization with long-term vision.
• A self-starter who thrives in ambiguity, learns quickly, and takes smart risks.
• Experienced in translating statistical and financial insights into actionable business recommendations.
• Skilled in defining success metrics, testing hypotheses, and interpreting statistically significant results.
• Curious about how AI can enhance catalog strategy, and eager to experiment with prompting techniques and AI-driven tools to improve insights and efficiency.
• Comfortable working with large datasets and dashboards in tools like Tableau; experience with SQL, BigQuery, Python, or R is a plus.
• Have at least 2+ years of experience in the music, podcast, video, book, or video gaming industries.
• Hold a four-year college degree.

Where You'll Be

• We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! For this role, you can be within the US region as long as we have a work location.
• This team operates across EST time zones for collaboration.

The United States base range for this position is $120,105 to $171,578 plus equity. The benefits available for this position include health insurance, six month paid parental leave, 401(k) retirement plan, monthly meal allowance, 23 paid days off, 13 paid flexible holidays, paid sick leave.

Spotify is an equal opportunity employer. You are welcome at Spotify for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or what’s playing in your headphones. Our platform is for everyone, and so is our workplace. The more voices we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will all thrive, contribute, and be forward-thinking! So bring us your personal experience, your perspectives, and your background. It’s in our differences that we will find the power to keep revolutionizing the way the world listens.

At Spotify, we are passionate about inclusivity and making sure our entire recruitment process is accessible to everyone. We have ways to request reasonable accommodations during the interview process and help assist in what you need. If you need accommodations at any stage of the application or interview process, please let us know - we’re here to support you in any way we can.

Spotify transformed music listening forever when we launched in 2008. Our mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the chance to enjoy and be passionate about these creators. Everything we do is driven by our love for music and podcasting. Today, we are the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service.